From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 15:04:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA06143 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:04:22 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA06137; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:04:20 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA01210; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:04:10 -0800 To: Dave Waddell cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , questions@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jan 95 16:28:01 CST." Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:04:10 -0800 Message-ID: <1209.791075050@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What do they use at Walnut Creek? I was under the impression that they > used FreeBSD for their 32GB of stuff. Is there any way to adjust the > disk parameters with some other program? Or, even better, can I do the > whole thing by hand i.e. the newfs'ing and installation. Finally, will > the OS recognize my CDRom when it finally boots? We actually boot off a much smaller (2GB) drive with a translated geometry of 2MB/cyl. This works fine. The other drives can be hand-newfs'd without any trouble since you're up and running at that point and can run newfs easily. At boot time, there isn't even a shell to facilitate this (no room!). I don't remember what kind of CDROM you have - can you refresh my memory? Jordan